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You Out Tonight? is the first book from Tough Luck, the Instagram account with over 46k followers that spotlights up-and-coming youth culture photographers from around the world. It features the work of 15 photographers from different backgrounds and styles, all united by their passion for capturing contemporary club culture with over 300 photographs from around the world. The book is 17.5cm x 24cm, and the 160 pages are printed and bound on heavyweight 150gsm paper with a hardback cover.

Step into the vibrant and pulsating world of nightlife through the lens of Tough Luck, the Instagram account that has become the heartbeat of contemporary club and rave photography. Through the lenses of their talented photographers, they unfold the stories of the night, spotlighting clubs, festivals, and the diverse characters shaping nocturnal culture.

While many rave photography books reminisce about the past, You Out Tonight? offers a fresh, contemporary experience. As you flip through the pages, you’ll find yourself immersed in the kaleidoscope of lights, colours, and emotions that define the modern clubbing experience. The book features photos from:

Aaron Wyld
Alfred Golding
Alice Palm
Amelia Valentiner
Bruna Blumenberg
Daniel Fennessy
Distorted
Edward Pascall
Max McDonald
Peter Aallyn
Roffa Archive
Selina Paton
Tara Sammouri
Tia Payne

Whether you’re a seasoned partygoer or a curious observer, Tough Luck invites you to experience the magic, the chaos, and the indescribable beauty of the night. Prepare to be transported into a world where time stands still, and the only currency is the rhythm of the music.

Quotes:

“Anthropology for the masses… Tough Luck bottles what it feels like to be young and out now” Matthew Whitehouse, editor of The Face

“It’s always a joy when I experience a spontaneous night out, even if vicariously while scrolling. It’s often an image from a photographer I’ve never heard of and excited to discover. The posts always make me smile and wish I was young again. For others like me who want to feel something fresh, exciting and real, check out Tough Luck UK, it’s the one place on instagram where I’m more than happy to go down the wormhole.” Elaine Constantine, BAFTA nominated writer/director and photographer

Take a trip through alien worlds and bizarre scenarios in a psychedelic Hero’s Journey of thrilling and surreal art from the mind of celebrated artist and composer Jem Panufnik. The Legend of Kaptain Karnival is highly original lavishly illustrated book that also includes a CD soundtrack recorded under his Jem Stone moniker.

The book is 24.5cm square and the 96 pages are printed and bound on heavyweight 150gsm paper with a hardback cover.

A documentation and reinterpretation of the liturgical incredible heritage of the mysterious Mount Athos.

Spaces of Worship

A Journey Through Spiritual Landscapes

Taking us on a journey through the history of sacred art and architecture, Sacred Sites explores the myriads of ways in which we imbue our environments with profound and enduring meaning. From our early designation of nature and the body as temple to our futuristic embrace of imaginary realms, we travel the vast and mystical landscapes of myth, religion, and imagination.

Through gathering, we ignite our spaces with spirit, we circle the bonfire, bow down at the forest altar, give praise at the temple to our chosen divinities. Through pilgrimage, we carve indelible pathways, making our meditative way across continents, generations of footsteps treading, again and again, upon sacred grounds. And through our creative offerings to spirit - we envision new worlds, wildly imaginative odes to what we deem as holy; golden temples hewn of rock, enormous spirals sculpted from sand and soil, silent sanctuaries hidden among wooded groves. We paint the ancient cave walls, carve petroglyphs to mark the way, place roses in veneration at the candlelit shrine.

Slowly, stone-by-stone, we build monuments to our gods, a cosmic geometry held within our sacred architecture of worship. These hidden patterns can be found in the mysterious, towering pyramids found across the globe and throughout an astounding diversity of cultures, in the marble sanctuaries built to house the Greek and Roman goddesses, and in the windblown mountain monasteries of ancient Asia and the indigenous cliff-dwellings of the American Southwest.

Nature, art, beauty, these are the common elements found both within the places made sacred by our ancestors and in the multitude of environments where we strive to connect to source, and to ourselves. Tracing a hallowed route from rugged stone temples to transcendent works of modern architecture, the fifth volume in The Library of Esoterica celebrates the collective history of spaces made sacrosanct through human worship.

A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Essays, interviews and more than 400 images explore spaces ranging from ancient temples to modern works of spatial art.

“From Machu Picchu to the Louvre—the book journeys through sacred sites in art and ancient history.”
Artnet News

“Sacred Sites celebrates how we traverse and transform the world around us through ritual and art. Compiled by Jessica Hundley, [the book] surveys a remarkable array of places and artworks through more than 400 images centered around pilgrimage, performance, and devotion.”
This is Colossal

“A decadent feast for the eyes, laced with belladonna.”
The New York Times

The editor and author
Jessica Hundley is an author, filmmaker and journalist. She has written for the likes of Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, and has authored books on artists including Dennis Hopper, David Lynch, and Gram Parsons. Hundley often explores the counterculture in her work, with a focus on metaphysics, psychedelia, and magic.

Sacred Sites. The Library of Esoterica
Hardcover, quarterbound, 17 x 24 cm, 1.77 kg, 520 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-9060-0
Edition: English

This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Widely regarded as one of the most influential groups in modern music--hip hop or otherwise--WTC has released seven albums [including four gold and platinum studio albums, as well as the genre-defining Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)] and has launched the careers of famous rappers like RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and more. Beyond the musicians in the group itself, WTC has also collaborated with many of the biggest names in the game-from Busta Rhymes and Redman to Nas and Kanye West), and one is hard pressed to find a group who's had a bigger impact on the evolution of the hip hop genre.

Though there have been biographies written about the band, both from members (like RZA) and collaborators (like Cyrus Bozorgmehr), most of the material that's been published so far has either focused on a single member of the group's story, or a narrow timespan of their work. This book will not only feature interviews with all living WTC members and a comprehensive look at their discography, it also includes never-before-revealed insight into their childhoods and the neighborhoods that shaped them growing up. It's unique in its breadth, scope, and access--a must-have for fans of WTC and music bios more generally.

Hardback, 528 pages, 24cm x 16cm, 796g